15 THE INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT AND 5S PRACTICES OF EFFECTIVENESS ON CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT Nuraini Amirah Abdul Halim 1 and Rahimi Abidin 2 1,2 School of Technology Management & Logistics, College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 Sintok, Kedah nuraini_amirah@stml.uum.edu.my 1 , a.rahimi@uum.edu.my 2 Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of physical environment and 5S practices on classroom management. The data for this study were collected from 130 respondents from students who use the classroom at STML. The result of the correlation shows that there was a significant relationship between independent variables and a dependent variable. The results show that 5S have more influence on the effectiveness of classroom compare to the physical environment on classroom management. Keywords: Classroom management, physical environment, 5S practices INTRODUCTION Classroom management is a term used by teachers to describe the process to ensure that classroom learning smoothly despite disruptive behaviour by students. The term also implies the prevention of disruptive behaviour. Thus, classroom management can be defined as teacher strategies that create and maintain an orderly learning environment and discipline to student misbehaviour also classroom management is closely linked to issues of motivation, discipline and respect. It refers to all those activities necessary to create and maintain an orderly learning environment such as planning and preparation of materials, organization, decoration of the classroom and certainly the establishment and enforcement of routines and rules (Tan, Parsons, Hinson, & Sardo-Brown, 2003). In addition, the classroom environment not only provides a context for learning, but it also includes the environment, equipment, space, and materials, and the social of the learning experience. This study focuses on the influence of physical environment and 5S practices on the effectiveness of classroom management. Besides, this study also attempts to determine the level of 5S implementation in STML classroom and to identify the satisfaction on facilities provided in the class. Commonly, the physical environment of the classroom has an effect on various components of the teaching and learning processes. This research focus on classroom at DKG 6 which have provided 30 classrooms and also at DPC that provide 4 classrooms. Several issues regarding to physical environment and 5S practices which is Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain were identified. All the equipment and tools were categorized as either needed or unneeded after identifying the problem of classroom. According to Ab Aziz and colleages (2015), 5S is an approach to regulating, ordering, cleaning, standardizing and continuously improving the working area. It is one of Lean Manufacturing's powerful work tools. The program got its name from five activities beginning with the letter S, which comes from five Japanese words. Those words are Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, And Shitsuke, translated as Sort, Set in Orders, Shining, Standardize and Sustain (Ab Aziz et. al, 2015). 5S is a good tool and very effective to ensure there is a good strategy and can manage as well. The data analyses using validity test and reliability test were used to ensure the data appropriate